CRN Storage News

Lenovo, which has seen HPE buy its storage partners SimpliVity and Nimble Storage, signed with DataCore to develop a new software-defined storage appliance. Partners say Lenovo needs a long-term storage strategy to go deeper into the data center.

Lenovo's new ThinkAgile For Microsoft Azure Stack is a convergence appliance designed to give customers the convenience of public cloud with the control of on-premise offerings. Here are five key facts partners need to know.

Bill Lipsin said that NetApp plans to bring offer a unique take on hyper-converged infrastructure, one that will work in conjunction with its FlexPod converged infrastructure to offer its channel partners a host of new services and consulting opportunities.

Excelero's NVMesh 1.1 aims at giving large scale data center operators the storage performance and scalability found in proprietary storage systems like those built by hyperscalers like Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

After NetApp CEO George Kurian surprise the storage industry by announcing plans to enter the hyper-converged infrastructure market, SolidFire's founder David Wright fleshes out the details in a wide-ranging conversation with CRN.

Dell EMC's Jeremy Burton and David Goulden use this half of a two-part interview to discuss some key technology issues the company faces in a fast-changing storage industry embracing flash and software-defined storage.

The new offering allows partners to use Veeam's data protection software to do efficient direct snapshots of data on Cisco HyperFlex hyper-converged infrastructure deployments rather than work through production virtual machines.

Four of Pure Storage's top executives used the fiscal year 2017 earnings call to look forward at new technologies such as NVMe and synchronous replication and to make the case that the company's new FlashBlade unstructured data array can beat Isilon and NetApp.

Lenovo Channel Chief Sammy Kinlaw is organizing Lenovo's Data Center Group partners into tiers for the first time with an eye toward more clearly incentivizing partners to push Lenovo data center solutions in the face of heavy competition from Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

The new Nimble Cloud Volumes keeps block data on all-flash and hybrid-flash storage in Nimble's own data centers with high-speed, low-latency access to that data available to AWS and Azure public clouds.

CRN's 2018 MSP 500
With the fast-growing -- and fast-changing -- MSP landscape in mind, CRN has again assembled the MSP 500, an annual list that recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to managed services.